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Vol. 2, i\o. 4 Issue
June 14 - June 20, 1905
Welcome! NGLHA conference attendees
Starting this weekend, health care providers from all over the United States, Canada and parts of Europe will converge on the Twin Cities for a five day conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Health Association and the George Washington University Medical center. Concurrent with the conference is the 13th annual AIDS/HIV Forum and the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals� �con-ference-within-a-conference.�
More than 600 people are expected to attend the conference, with over 150 workshops on every issue from creating local health care clinics to same sex domestic violence.
Despite the hectic schedule attendees are offered tours of the Twin Cities on June 21 & 22, so if you see a group of doctors around town, make sure you wave.
Irving Berlin on Broadway:
Felix R. Hill Rosado, right, and Cheryl Gardner try on some of the Ice Capade costumes.
Pride promises biggest, best ever
by Rachel Cold �
With less than ten days to go, this year�s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexuals, Transgender Pride Festival is looking bigger and better than ever. Already Pride Committee members reports larger numbers of vendor booths and parade units than last year. A family area has been added to the festival, better accessibility, paramedic services on site, and more toilets.
According to Colin Spriestersbach, an anonymous donor arranged for the Pride Committee to have five golf carts for getting around the festival. He says one will be set aside for the paramedics. U.S. West Cellular has donated cellular phones to keep Pride staff in touch with each other. They have between 35-40 food booths, he said, increasing last year�s total by more than 50%, and as of two weeks ago passed the total number of registered booths from last year.
Colin says the Pride Committee is in the �best financial shape we can possibly go into� the Festival with.
Nan Cournoyer, executive chair of the Pride Committee, reported that this year�s Festival will sport four emcees: Lojo Russo, Rob Yeager, Leigh Combs and Shelly McVickers. Entertainment on the mainstage will include the talents of Mimi=Freed, Barb Ryman, Maile Flanagan, the Roxy Hall Band, Brie Jordan, Rainbow Cloggers, Borderline, Lori Dokken, and TiNea. The second stage, called the �Rainbow Room,� will host In Your Face Poetry Troupe, Waterbound, and others.
Ashley Rukes, Parade Chair, said the Pride Parade has already surpassed last years� size �by a good ten units or so.� She estimates that another 10-12 units will sign up for the Parade on the Saturday of Pride weekend.
Last year�s Pride weekend drew approximately 85,000 people to Loring park for the weekend. This year�s celebration, slated for June 24 and 25 appears on its way to threatening the six-figure digits.
Committee cancels Pride Guide
by Rachel Gold
A small group of Twin Cities professionals have come together to create a organization that will increase business for GLBT and friendly businesses. Calling the group �Quorum,� the organizers plan to bring together businesses from a variety of fields and to connect them with GLBT consumers and events.
�A need exists in the Twin Cities to provide leadership for economic activity generated by gay spending, and Quorum will be a facilitator for that activity as well as a means for fostering a positive environment for GLBT friendly businesses,� explained Stephanie Grey, Quorum board member and co-chair of the Twin Cities Gay Workplace Alliance.
Promoter and fundraiser Scott Mayer, another Quorum board mem-
ber, stated that one of the immediate goals of the organization is to improve the economic status of GLBT friendly businesses �through increased economic activity in the gay community.�
�Gays and lesbians in the Twin Cities spend a lot of money here,� he said. Recently, national groups have also begin to chose the Twin Cities as location for their events and conventions, he pointed out. For example, in the last year both the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist Association convention and the North American Gay Volleyball Tournament have come to the Cities. �We need to link these organizations with supportive businesses so that both entities can profit by the partnerships.�
Mayer said another goal of Quorum is to encourage more national events
to come to the Cities. �We want to show that the Midwest has a lot to offer,� he said.
Non-GLBT businesses are invited to participate, including large companies with a national presence as well as small companies and self-employed business persons. To participate in Quorum, Mayer said, a business only needs �to be interested in attracting the gay and lesbian consumer.�
Members of Quorum will be presenting their organization�s goals on June 15 at the Business Networking Night sponsored by Philanthrofund Foundation, held at the St. Anthony Main Entertainment Complex. For more information about how to become a member of Quorum, contact Lee Roehl at 822-7192.
Pretty in Pink District 202 prom
by Hannah Feldman
Polish those high heels and brush off the tux: The prom is back. More accurately, the prom* *s* *: A youth prom for the 21-and-under GLBT crowd, and Prom 202 for those who are at least four years past their original Night to Remember-and may remember it only as a time to mask their sexuality with a heterosexual date or stay home eating Fritos in front of the tube.
This time round, these adults can bring their date of choice, and wear whatever appeals, be it full drag regalia or cut-off jeans, a tux jacket and Doc Martens. The Saturday night event will be held at the Calhoun Beach Club. The theme, �Rendezvous in Rio,� includes gambling at the �Rio Casino� and cash prizes... though none, alas, for best Carmen Miranda impersonator. Tickets are available for $25 at A Brother�s Touch and the Amazon bookstores. All proceeds go to benefit District 202, the Upper Midwest�s only GLBT youth center.
Meanwhile, the about 200 kids-up from 125 last year-are expected to kick it up at the Hyatt Regency, according to Youth Prom co-chair Hope Artichoker. There might have been even more, she admits, if the planning committee had promoted the dance more heavily and in advance. In fact, the entire youth prom has a, um, * * spontaneous* * feel to it. Five days before the dance, the big question was still �What should we have for a theme?� Well, a few stumbles are expected from a two-year-old.
The prom contains plenty of similarities with its mainstream high school counterparts: The frantic scramble for a date, the fancy clothes. Many couples are planning to do the whole limo-and-dinner ritual. But other aspects make it one-of-a-kind: Tickets are only four dollars in advance, participants are expected to be sober, and, of course, when the slow song begins, the floor will fill up with same-sex couples having their Night to Remember before they hit 30.
Business organization forms to stimulate economic activity in the GLBT community
Cover of cancelled pride guide
by Rachel Cold
Two weeks past the day it was due to hit the streets, the Twin Cities Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee canceled production of the Pride Guide. At that time the printer had only received one-quarter of the Guide.
According to Nan Cournoyer, Pride Committee executive chair, the Committee met Tuesday night to review the situation with the Guide. �[It was] obvious production was behind,� she said. The Committee discussed the cost of producing the Guide and the difficulty of distributing it this close to the festival, and decided not to produce it. On the morning of Wednesday, June 14 they sent a message to the printer calling for a halt to production.
Cournoyer said that she had not anticipated any trouble with the Pride Guide until it missed its June 1 deadline. At that point, she said, the Committee �thought we still had time to salvage it.� According to Rukes, some members of the Pride Committee were concerned that they had never seen mock-ups or pages of the Guide.
Holdgrafer explained the problems with the Pride Guide as twofold, �Essentially we ran into major production problems.... Part of it because of personnel problems and part of it because of the situation, the demise of Gaze and the emergence of Lavender Lifestyles.�
Holdgrafer said that he started work on the Pride Guide early last fall, but he did not pick someone to do the production of the Guide until April. �One thing we tried to do was rely entirely on volunteer help for everything except the printing, and perhaps that was not the wisest decision,� he said. He picked the production person on the basis of work he had seen done for other community organizations.
Then he discovered that the person he had chosen to produce the Pride Guide was unable to do the job. �The problem was lack of familiarity with the computer equipment that was necessary, and also lack of design capability,� he explained.
According to Holdgrafer the deadline for submission to the Guide was May 1, but he did not discover the production problems until the �last week in May.�
At that point he turned the production of the Guide over to Lavender Lifestyles art director Charlene McPhee. She completed portions of the Guide but was hampered by production of the first issue of Lavender Lifestyles. Currently, Holdgrafer said, �there are portions of each section that are completed. So it would require probably about a day to put together.� They did not complete the Guide in the first week of June �because we were working on the first issue of Lavender Lifestyles.�
When asked if he felt it was more important to get Lavender Lifestyles out by June 9 than to produce the Pride Guide, he replied �No, I wouldn�t say that, it was simply a matter of just so many hours in the day.� When questioned further about whether he could have put off his new publication for a week and finished the Pride Guide, Holdgrafer said, �potentially, sure.�
Responsibility for the Pride Guide has been removed from George Holdgrafer, the Pride Guide Chair, and returned to the Pride Committee as a whole. The Committee reports that they are working with local vendors to produce a modified version of the Guide in time for Pride.
After hearing of the Pride Guide cancellation, focusPoint offered to help come up with a solution to the problem of disseminating information about the Festival to the Community. The Pride Committee has not yet agreed to work with focusPoint, but Cournoyer said Committee response to the suggestions has been �favorable.�

�Juneteenth: a celebration of freedom Page 10
�Simon Rosser and human sexuality Page 16
�Who cares now? Health care yesterday and today in the GLBT Commuinty Page 9
Vol. 2, i\o. 4 Issue
June 14 - June 20, 1905
Welcome! NGLHA conference attendees
Starting this weekend, health care providers from all over the United States, Canada and parts of Europe will converge on the Twin Cities for a five day conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Health Association and the George Washington University Medical center. Concurrent with the conference is the 13th annual AIDS/HIV Forum and the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals� �con-ference-within-a-conference.�
More than 600 people are expected to attend the conference, with over 150 workshops on every issue from creating local health care clinics to same sex domestic violence.
Despite the hectic schedule attendees are offered tours of the Twin Cities on June 21 & 22, so if you see a group of doctors around town, make sure you wave.
Irving Berlin on Broadway:
Felix R. Hill Rosado, right, and Cheryl Gardner try on some of the Ice Capade costumes.
Pride promises biggest, best ever
by Rachel Cold �
With less than ten days to go, this year�s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexuals, Transgender Pride Festival is looking bigger and better than ever. Already Pride Committee members reports larger numbers of vendor booths and parade units than last year. A family area has been added to the festival, better accessibility, paramedic services on site, and more toilets.
According to Colin Spriestersbach, an anonymous donor arranged for the Pride Committee to have five golf carts for getting around the festival. He says one will be set aside for the paramedics. U.S. West Cellular has donated cellular phones to keep Pride staff in touch with each other. They have between 35-40 food booths, he said, increasing last year�s total by more than 50%, and as of two weeks ago passed the total number of registered booths from last year.
Colin says the Pride Committee is in the �best financial shape we can possibly go into� the Festival with.
Nan Cournoyer, executive chair of the Pride Committee, reported that this year�s Festival will sport four emcees: Lojo Russo, Rob Yeager, Leigh Combs and Shelly McVickers. Entertainment on the mainstage will include the talents of Mimi=Freed, Barb Ryman, Maile Flanagan, the Roxy Hall Band, Brie Jordan, Rainbow Cloggers, Borderline, Lori Dokken, and TiNea. The second stage, called the �Rainbow Room,� will host In Your Face Poetry Troupe, Waterbound, and others.
Ashley Rukes, Parade Chair, said the Pride Parade has already surpassed last years� size �by a good ten units or so.� She estimates that another 10-12 units will sign up for the Parade on the Saturday of Pride weekend.
Last year�s Pride weekend drew approximately 85,000 people to Loring park for the weekend. This year�s celebration, slated for June 24 and 25 appears on its way to threatening the six-figure digits.
Committee cancels Pride Guide
by Rachel Gold
A small group of Twin Cities professionals have come together to create a organization that will increase business for GLBT and friendly businesses. Calling the group �Quorum,� the organizers plan to bring together businesses from a variety of fields and to connect them with GLBT consumers and events.
�A need exists in the Twin Cities to provide leadership for economic activity generated by gay spending, and Quorum will be a facilitator for that activity as well as a means for fostering a positive environment for GLBT friendly businesses,� explained Stephanie Grey, Quorum board member and co-chair of the Twin Cities Gay Workplace Alliance.
Promoter and fundraiser Scott Mayer, another Quorum board mem-
ber, stated that one of the immediate goals of the organization is to improve the economic status of GLBT friendly businesses �through increased economic activity in the gay community.�
�Gays and lesbians in the Twin Cities spend a lot of money here,� he said. Recently, national groups have also begin to chose the Twin Cities as location for their events and conventions, he pointed out. For example, in the last year both the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist Association convention and the North American Gay Volleyball Tournament have come to the Cities. �We need to link these organizations with supportive businesses so that both entities can profit by the partnerships.�
Mayer said another goal of Quorum is to encourage more national events
to come to the Cities. �We want to show that the Midwest has a lot to offer,� he said.
Non-GLBT businesses are invited to participate, including large companies with a national presence as well as small companies and self-employed business persons. To participate in Quorum, Mayer said, a business only needs �to be interested in attracting the gay and lesbian consumer.�
Members of Quorum will be presenting their organization�s goals on June 15 at the Business Networking Night sponsored by Philanthrofund Foundation, held at the St. Anthony Main Entertainment Complex. For more information about how to become a member of Quorum, contact Lee Roehl at 822-7192.
Pretty in Pink District 202 prom
by Hannah Feldman
Polish those high heels and brush off the tux: The prom is back. More accurately, the prom* *s* *: A youth prom for the 21-and-under GLBT crowd, and Prom 202 for those who are at least four years past their original Night to Remember-and may remember it only as a time to mask their sexuality with a heterosexual date or stay home eating Fritos in front of the tube.
This time round, these adults can bring their date of choice, and wear whatever appeals, be it full drag regalia or cut-off jeans, a tux jacket and Doc Martens. The Saturday night event will be held at the Calhoun Beach Club. The theme, �Rendezvous in Rio,� includes gambling at the �Rio Casino� and cash prizes... though none, alas, for best Carmen Miranda impersonator. Tickets are available for $25 at A Brother�s Touch and the Amazon bookstores. All proceeds go to benefit District 202, the Upper Midwest�s only GLBT youth center.
Meanwhile, the about 200 kids-up from 125 last year-are expected to kick it up at the Hyatt Regency, according to Youth Prom co-chair Hope Artichoker. There might have been even more, she admits, if the planning committee had promoted the dance more heavily and in advance. In fact, the entire youth prom has a, um, * * spontaneous* * feel to it. Five days before the dance, the big question was still �What should we have for a theme?� Well, a few stumbles are expected from a two-year-old.
The prom contains plenty of similarities with its mainstream high school counterparts: The frantic scramble for a date, the fancy clothes. Many couples are planning to do the whole limo-and-dinner ritual. But other aspects make it one-of-a-kind: Tickets are only four dollars in advance, participants are expected to be sober, and, of course, when the slow song begins, the floor will fill up with same-sex couples having their Night to Remember before they hit 30.
Business organization forms to stimulate economic activity in the GLBT community
Cover of cancelled pride guide
by Rachel Cold
Two weeks past the day it was due to hit the streets, the Twin Cities Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride Committee canceled production of the Pride Guide. At that time the printer had only received one-quarter of the Guide.
According to Nan Cournoyer, Pride Committee executive chair, the Committee met Tuesday night to review the situation with the Guide. �[It was] obvious production was behind,� she said. The Committee discussed the cost of producing the Guide and the difficulty of distributing it this close to the festival, and decided not to produce it. On the morning of Wednesday, June 14 they sent a message to the printer calling for a halt to production.
Cournoyer said that she had not anticipated any trouble with the Pride Guide until it missed its June 1 deadline. At that point, she said, the Committee �thought we still had time to salvage it.� According to Rukes, some members of the Pride Committee were concerned that they had never seen mock-ups or pages of the Guide.
Holdgrafer explained the problems with the Pride Guide as twofold, �Essentially we ran into major production problems.... Part of it because of personnel problems and part of it because of the situation, the demise of Gaze and the emergence of Lavender Lifestyles.�
Holdgrafer said that he started work on the Pride Guide early last fall, but he did not pick someone to do the production of the Guide until April. �One thing we tried to do was rely entirely on volunteer help for everything except the printing, and perhaps that was not the wisest decision,� he said. He picked the production person on the basis of work he had seen done for other community organizations.
Then he discovered that the person he had chosen to produce the Pride Guide was unable to do the job. �The problem was lack of familiarity with the computer equipment that was necessary, and also lack of design capability,� he explained.
According to Holdgrafer the deadline for submission to the Guide was May 1, but he did not discover the production problems until the �last week in May.�
At that point he turned the production of the Guide over to Lavender Lifestyles art director Charlene McPhee. She completed portions of the Guide but was hampered by production of the first issue of Lavender Lifestyles. Currently, Holdgrafer said, �there are portions of each section that are completed. So it would require probably about a day to put together.� They did not complete the Guide in the first week of June �because we were working on the first issue of Lavender Lifestyles.�
When asked if he felt it was more important to get Lavender Lifestyles out by June 9 than to produce the Pride Guide, he replied �No, I wouldn�t say that, it was simply a matter of just so many hours in the day.� When questioned further about whether he could have put off his new publication for a week and finished the Pride Guide, Holdgrafer said, �potentially, sure.�
Responsibility for the Pride Guide has been removed from George Holdgrafer, the Pride Guide Chair, and returned to the Pride Committee as a whole. The Committee reports that they are working with local vendors to produce a modified version of the Guide in time for Pride.
After hearing of the Pride Guide cancellation, focusPoint offered to help come up with a solution to the problem of disseminating information about the Festival to the Community. The Pride Committee has not yet agreed to work with focusPoint, but Cournoyer said Committee response to the suggestions has been �favorable.�